Language testing and evaluation (172 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: New. Testing of second language pragmatics has grown as a research area but still suffers from a tension between construct coverage and practicality. In this book, the authors describe the development and validation of a web-based test of second language pragmatics for learners of English. The test has a socio…

Originalhardcover. Zustand: Wie neu. 182 S. Ein tadelloses Exemplar. - Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- 1 Introduction 15 -- 2 Pragmatics: The lay of the land 19 -- 2.1 The content of pragmatics: Speech acts et al 20 -- 2.2 Context in pragmatics 22 -- 2.3 What language users know: Sociopragmatic and pragmalinguistic knowledge 24…

Hardback. Zustand: New. Since the early days of performance assessment, human ratings have been subject to various forms of error and bias. Expert raters often come up with different ratings for the very same performance and it seems that assessment outcomes largely depend upon which raters happen to assign the rating. This book…

Zustand: New. Testing of second language pragmatics has grown as a research area but still suffers from a tension between construct coverage and practicality. In this book, the authors describe the development and validation of a web-based test of second language pragmatics for learners of English. Series: Language Testing and E…

Originalhardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 349 S. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - How did the (old) Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) assess the Chinese proficiency of non-native speakers of Chinese? What inferences can be derived from HSK test taker scores, especially from Western test takers? How difficult is it to learn Chinese accor…

Pp. Zustand: Wie neu. XV, 278 S. ; 22 cm Tadelloses Exemplar. - Table of Contents -- 1. Introduction 1 -- 1.1 Rationale of the study 2 -- 1.2 Aim of the study 6 -- 1.3 Usefulness of the study 10 -- 1.4 Book Structure 12 -- 2. Literature Review 15 -- 2.1 Introduction 15 -- 2.2 Readability Formulas 16 -- 2.3 Text structural comple…